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Source: Who's who in the Pacific Southwest: a compilation of authentic
biographical sketches of citizens of Southern California and Arizona.
Los Angeles: Times-Mirror Print. & Binding House, 1913, 406 pgs.
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Member Los Angeles Realty Board;
Los Angeles Athletic Club.
Episcopalian.
BRADLEY, Edward Rickey.
Physician and surgeon. Res. Los
Angeles; office 508 S. Spring st., Los
Angeles, Cal. Born at Folsom, Cal.
Feb. 24, 1865; son of Cyrus and
Cordelia Bradley. Married to Virginia
Burton Williamson in 1894. Gradu-
ated from high school in Los Angeles
in 1885; from medical college of
Univ. of So. Cal. in 1888; special work
at Bellevue Medical College, New York
City, 1889. On staff at the Bellevue
Hospital, 1889-90; returned to Los
Angeles and entered private practice.
Has specialized in children's diseases;
physician in the Los Angeles
Orphans' Home; has spent much time
inspecting hospitals in Europe and
studying the methods of these insti-
tutions; has contributed a number of
papers, and delivered many lectures
on diseases of children. Member
American Medical Assn.; Los Angeles
County Medical Soc.; State Medical
Soc.; Federation Club; Los Angeles
Chamber of Commerce; Y. M. C. A.
BRAINERD, Henry G.
Physician. Res. Los Angeles; office
609 Exchange Bldg., Los Angeles, Cal. Born in
New Hampshire, May 23, 1852. Mar-
ried to Fannie Howard in 1887. Edu-
cated at Iowa College, Ia.; Dartmouth
College, N. H.; graduated from Rush
Medical College, Chicago, in 1878;
post-graduate work at the New York
Post-Graduate School, 1882-83; at
London Polyclinic in 1899. Asst. phy-
sician in the Iowa State Hospital for
the insane, Mt. Pleasant, Ia. Moved
to Los Angeles, Cal., in 1887, and has
been in private practice since that
date, specializing in neurology; asst.
supt. of the Iowa Hospital for the
Insane at Independence, Ia., 1878-86;
supt. Los Angeles Co. Hospital, 1887-
92; professor of neurology at the
College of Medicine, Univ. of So. Cal.,
1887-1909; secy. of the faculty, 1889-
96; dean of the College of Medicine,
Univ. of So. Cal., 1896-1902; prof. of
neurology, Los Angeles Dept. College
of Med., Univ. of So. Cal., 1909 to
date. Member Los Angeles Co. Med-
Assn.; Los Angeles Clinical and
Pathological Soc.; So. Cal. Med. Soc.; Med.
Soc. of the State of Cal.; Am. Med.
Assn.; Am. Academy of Med.; California
and University clubs; ex-pres.
Los Angeles Co. Med. Assn. and of
Los Angeles Clinical and Pathological
Soc. Organized Dental Dept. of
the Univ. of So. Cal. and was first
dean of faculty.
BRAUER, Adolph Karl.
Merchant tailor. Res. 2129 West 21st St.;
office 345-47 S. Spring St., Los Angeles,
Cal. Born in Weissenfels, Saxony.
Germany, June 11, 1869; son of
Adolph and Henrietta R. (Schueler)
Brauer; married to Serena D. Gerdts
in 1896. Educated in public schools,
Germany; finished education in
Somerville, Tenn. First employed in
general merchandise store, Somerville,
Tenn.; moved to Peoria, Ill.,
1883; salesman in ready-to-wear cloth-
ing store until 1888; moved to Los
Angeles, Cal., 1888; followed same
line till 1895; traveling salesman for
Haker, Gerdts & Co., wholesale mil-
linery, Los Angeles, Cal.; tailoring
business in partnership with Henry
G. Krohn, doing business under name
Brauer & Krohn, in 1897; later ac-
quired additional store, conducting
the two places in the same line of
business; opened larger establishment
at 128-30 S. Spring St., occupying en-
tire building as factory and sales-
rooms, and retaining the other two
stores as well, 1901; took another
salesroom at 459-61 S. Spring St.,
1905; bought out Mr. Krohn's inter-
est, conducting the firm for a short
time under name A. K. Brauer, 1910;
consolidated business into two stores,
retaining the place at corner Fifth and
Spring Sts., and establishing principal
store, offices and factory in A. K.
Brauer Bldg., 1911; about this time
the business was incorporated, and is
now styled "'A. K. Brauer & Co.,
Tailors to Men Who Know." Served
two terms as dir. Merchants &
Manufacturers' Assn.; trustee of Public
Welfare Fund; member Jonathan
Club; L. A. Athletic Club; Tuna Club;
Cazadores Gun Club, Turnverein Germania;
Al Malaikah Temple of Mystic
Shrine; 32nd degree Scottish Rite
Mason; Knights Templar; Golden West
Commandery No. 43; Cham. of Com.;
Merchants & Manufacturers' Assn.;
Municipal League; City Club.
BRAUN, Frederick William.
Merchant and manufacturer; real estate
rentals and building. Res. 2157
Harvard blvd.; office 363-71 New High
st., Los Angeles, Cal. Born in Ill.,
Oct. 6, 1858; son of John and Katherine
M. Braun. Married to Kathryn
E. Staniford. Educated in public
schools of Peru, Ill., and at Chicago
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